Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On this day in history alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35   

1935  On May - 01 boulder Dam completed   

1935  Canada's first silver dollar is circulated on May - 01.   

1935  On this day in history royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V   

1936  Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades on May - 01.   

1936  On May - 01 fBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis   

1937  On May - 01 fDR signs act of neutrality   

1937  On May - 01 snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75   

1939  On this day in history batman Comics hit the street   

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on this day in history.   

1940  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history the 1940 Olympics are cancelled   

1941  On May - 01 "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York   

1941  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on May - 01.   

1941  On May - 01 german assault on Tobruk   

1941  On this day in history orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY   

1941  On May - 01 john R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71   

1942  On May - 01 japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India.   

1942  On May - 01 radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  On this day in history townsville put on invasion alert   

1943  Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins on May - 01.   

1943  On May - 01 food rationing begins in US   

1943  On this day in history german plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta   

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes on May - 01.   

1943  Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) on May - 01.   

1944  Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight on this day in history.   

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on this day in history.   

1944  Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails on May - 01.   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on May - 01.   

1945  On May - 01 admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government   

1945  On this day in history australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast   

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on this day in history.   

1945  General Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms on May - 01.   

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1218  On this day in history birth of john I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257)   

1218  On May - 01 birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  On this day in history birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on this day in history.   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on May - 01.   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.   

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  On May - 01 death of arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)   

1118  Death of Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080) on this day in history.   

1171  On May - 01 dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies   

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on this day in history.   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on May - 01.   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on this day in history.   

1447  Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies on May - 01.   

1456  On this day in history hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies